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Jaman, Cinetic Rights partner to deliver award-winning films online

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Online destination for high-definition entertainment Jaman.com is partnering with Cinetic Rights Management.

This partnership expands Jaman’s catalogue to more than 7000 films, including Oscar-winning documentaries and contenders from the world’s premiere film festivals. Cinetic will also deliver hits premiered during film festivals in 2008

Most recently, Jaman acquired nearly 3,000 titles of E1 Entertainment’s most renowned feature films and documentaries, episodic series and American TV classics. Other current content providers include Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, BFI, Eros International, Magnolia Pictures, First Look Films, Arts Alliance America and BBC Worldwide America.

Originally posted on February 20, 2009 @ 7:00 am

BrowserMedia releases iPhone app for Grammy Awards

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BrowserMedia has released its iPhone application for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.

BrowserMedia worked closely with The Recording Academy to design and develop an iPhone application to help promote the upcoming Grammy Awards on February 8. The application is an interactive trivia game designed to test the user’s knowledge through a celebration of 51 years of Grammy history. BrowserMedia is developing a companion Facebook application to further promote the Grammy’s and offer an ongoing trivia contest, which will be promoted on the Grammy.com website.

Originally posted on February 5, 2009 @ 12:15 pm

Jaman introduces Facebook Connect

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Online destination for HD entertainment Jaman.com has implemented Facebook Connect to bring together friends and film enthusiasts around the world.

With Facebook Connect, users can quickly and easily sign into Jaman using their already established Facebook account, with no need for users to register separately for Jaman. Members are able to access their Facebook friends already on Jaman, enabling a trusted social context, and can publish their movie-watching activities and film reviews back on Facebook.

Recognizing that sharing plays an integral role in how people find and recommend films, Jaman has introduced a number of new social-networking features, including:

Movie Finder: Set sliders to determine your movie mood: serious vs. funny; deep vs. shallow; or tears vs. bullets

Jaman Movie Taste Test: A quick, fun quiz that helps Jaman make personalized recommendations for films you will like
People Finder: Enables Jaman members to discover people with similar movie tastes

The Subtitler: Lets members re-write captions on foreign film clips

Interactive World Map: Live scroll of Jaman user activity across the globe

Originally posted on February 9, 2009 @ 11:10 am

Blockbuster to offer online video game rentals

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An upcoming pilot program from Blockbuster Inc. will offer consumers one-stop shopping for their online video game and movie rental needs during the second quarter.

The pilot program will allow select Blockbuster Total Access online customers to rent video games, as well as movies, through the mail as part of their subscription plan. With a goal of having the offering available nationally in the second half of the year, the company is launching the pilot program as the first step in its plan to make Blockbuster Total Access the only online rental service offering both movies and games.

In addition to more than 90,000 movie titles to choose from, Blockbuster Total Access subscribers in the pilot program will have the option of selecting from game titles across major platforms – including Nintendo Wii, PS2, PS3, Xbox and Xbox 360. Participating subscribers will also continue to have the same subscription benefits as they currently do, plus the added benefit of video game availability.

Originally posted on February 11, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

Jokeroo.com now the largest humor video site in Canada; Growth attributed to recession

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Jokeroo.com is now the largest humor video site in Canada for males 18 to 34, according to comScore Media Metrix. Since June the number of Canadians visiting humor sites has exploded by 58% or 2.6 million visitors, many of them looking for funny video clips.

“The economy has entered a recession and the first thing people seek in rough times is great entertainment,” says CEO of JMG, Chris Pavlovski. “In this market, it’s great to sit atop of our competition.”

Internally Jokeroo.com recorded roughly 1.3 million unique visitors in Canada, slightly more then comScore’s reported 903,000 unique visitors. The audience was heavily male, comprising of 62.6 percent. Jokeroo still had a very significant female presence, registering 338,000 unique female visitors or 37.4 percent in December. Jokeroo’s reach in Canada towered over the likes of Comedy Central, Disney Channel and Heavy.com.

Originally posted on February 4, 2009 @ 12:00 pm